Hammer to Nail

(Check out Chris Reed’s When Fall Is Coming movie review, It starts April 4 at Film Forum before a nationwide rollout. Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) When Fall Is Coming, the new film from French director François Ozon...

Premiering to critical acclaim in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes 2024, Armand marks the feature debut of Norwegian filmmaker Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel. Set entirely within the labyrinthine corridors of an elementary school after hours, this tense psychological drama follows Elisabeth...

Throughout its five-decade run, New Directors/New Films has introduced the works of many of today’s notable auteurs, including Steven Spielberg, Spike Lee, Wong Kar-Wai, Kelly Reichardt, Denis Villeneuve, Michael Haneke, Guillermo del Toro, RaMell Ross, Laura Poitras, Yorgos Lanthimos, and...

“This is my heart, it’s yours… forever.” Filmmaker Alexis Langlois, known back in his native France for his extravagant music videos, makes his feature debut with Queens of Drama. Premiering at last year’s Cannes Critics Week, the film charts the...

When words fail, cinema is the purest form of expression, believes experimental filmmaker J.D Fernández Molero. Cinema is the closest thing to dreams, in its ability to conjure existence and twist reality. Cinema is a punku,  meaning for “gateway” in...

(Check out Chris Reed’s The Ballad of Wallis Island movie review, it’s in theaters now via Focus Features. Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) An adaptation of a 2007 short film from the same creative team (director, writers/co-stars), James Griffith’s The Ballad...

Filmmaker Courtney Stephens (Terra Femme, The American Sector) blurs fiction and autobiographical nonfiction in her newest 16mm feature, Invention. It stars Callie Hernandez (who co-wrote the script with Stephens) as a woman who returns to her hometown following the passing...

After nearly two decades of making cinematic, boundary-pushing period pieces, Paul Thomas Anderson is coming back to the present day with an explosive political satire. One Battle After Another, Anderson’s tenth feature, stars Leonardo DiCaprio as a former civil rights...

Carson Lund’s directorial debut Eephus arrives like a rare, carefully crafted pitch – deceptively simple yet loaded with unexpected depth and movement. Set during a final game between two New England recreational baseball teams whose beloved field faces imminent destruction, the film...

(Check out Matt Delman’s Misericordia movie review, it’s in theaters now! Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Misericordia is quite the title for a film, and learning that it’s a Latin word meaning ‘Mercy’ makes it even...